During the war in Algeria, Laurent, a student who intends to become a journalist, decides to forfeit his service exemption in order to go to Algiers and join the officer’s school. He meets Evelyne, a young French settler whom he falls deeply in love with.

During the war in Algeria, Laurent, a literature student who intends to become a journalist, decides to forfeit his service exemption in order to go to Algiers and join the officer’s school. In this country with multiple faces, he meets Evelyne, a young French settler whom he falls deeply in love with. Quickly their love is put to the test of a war that rages with more and more intensity.

During his sting in the military, Lauren discovers the complexity of the situation: the will for independence of Muslim Algerians, the blindness of the settlers with the emergence of terrorist groups that become more and more violent, finally the contradictions of his own side, the French Army.

As Laurent’s passion for Evelyne grows and death marks their fates, the entire military and civil population goes to war. Then begins the Farewell to a country branded with iron by its own people : soldiers, civilians, Muslim collaborators, settlers…